In this page, you will find a pointer to some research and job opportunities in relation with social information networks and their applications.

You are welcome to contact the instructor to know more or get involved with one of them.

Dates posted

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URL

Who's eligible

Application Date

06/07

PhD student position in Paris: distributed systems for hybrid reality

A PhD position is open for a collaborative project on hybrid reality between LIP6 and Orange Labs. The student will address issues concerning scalability in hybrid reality systems such as handling spatial queries on large sets of moving objects. The distributed algorithms designed by the student are intended to be implemented in a working service prototype.

Although the primary application is an hybrid reality system – ie a realtime mirror world combined with a shared augmented reality system – the project is expected to contribute to the nascent field of distributed computational geometry. And as more and more realtime location data are available from smartphones (GPS, gyroscopes, etc...) scalability issues in spatial querieswill become critical, making then distributed solutions imperative.

We are looking for an autonomous and ambitious student with a strong background in distributed computing. Previous experience with computational geometry or spatial databases algorithms is a plus but not a requirement.

We actively hiring talented software engineers and are especially interested in those who might also have a passion for sports.

This is GameChanger: www.gamechanger.io

This explains the job opportunity and our tech stack: www.gamechanger.io/jobs

everyone

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04/27

Remote Software Engineer

Start-up firm is seeking software engineer to add parts to an existing platform. You would need to work with the existing team and integrate parts into existing platform. This is a remote position so you would not work in an office. The platform is a social networking website where users can play in sports and entertainment pools. Please visit beta.goroller.com to see current release. Some components of the platform are:

Compensation: New developer would be paid a fixed fee to develop a part or multiple parts. If successful, developer would be compensated in future with base + profit- share and possibly equity.

Goroller.com

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04/04

I'd like to take this opportunity to make sure you are aware of the
ACM-W Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences. ACM-W
awards at least 20 scholarships per year, in 6 award cycles, to
women students interested in attending research conferences. Ten
awards are up to $600 for intracontinental conference travel, and
ten are up to $1200 for intercontinental conference travel.
Usually the majority of applicants are from Ph.D. and
M.S. programs, but we are very interested in encouraging
undergraduates to continue in CS by helping them have the
experience of attending a research conference. Note that the
attendee does not have to be presenting at the conference! Please
encourage your women students to check out the scholarship program
at http://women.acm.org/participate/scholarship/index.cfm, and
please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

Working Mother Media is holding our second annual Advancement of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Leadership Summit on March 16 at Pfizer Headquarters in New York City. We would like to offer Columbia the opportunity to send up to five women, free of charge. These can be students or faculty members.

You may be interested to know that Dr. Janine Clayton, Deputy Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be our opening keynote speaker. The room will be filled with women currently holding middle-management positions or higher in STEM careers.

I am attaching a flyer describing the program. You can also learn more about it on our web site, workingmother.com, on the conferences site.

If you wish to apply, please review our website (www.villagehealthworks.org) and send a cover letter, resume, and examples of your work to resumes@villagehealthworksorg. Please put "Web Design Internship" in the subject.

any student

open ended

Feb. 10th

CIS LLC
CIS LLC -a midtown fin.s-ces firm is looking for interns : a web interface
designer with UX/UI skills and a social network developer experienced in
social network marketing.

New York City is a growing center for technology, media, and entrepreneurship. The NYC Turing Fellows Program seeks to match outstanding computer science, engineering, and mathematic students with paid summer internships at leading NYC startups. In addition, these students will benefit from a summer curriculum consisting of networking and mentoring events and be entitled to receive a $5,000 fellowship prize upon completion of the program. An exclusive group of NYC startups – including Foursquare, Tumblr, Squarespace, blip.tv, SecondMarket, Yipit, and others – are supporting and participating in this program.

Interested students should apply at www.nycturingfellows.org/howtoapply. The application deadline is February 11, 2011. A group of up to 25 Semi-Finalists will be invited to NYC on March 4th and 5th to explore different summer internship opportunities with participating startups. Students will be reimbursed for travel expenses and housing will be provided.

NYU Women in Computing is looking for volunteers that can help out on April 8th @ NYU for our annual NYC Girls conference.
More than 200 hundred girls and teachers from 25+ high schools in NYC will be attending this event!
The day will include programming challenges, interactive workshops, and distinguished speakers from Google, Columbia, NYU and Princeton.

Everyone is welcome to attend and volunteer for this event (Students, faculty,
alumni, and staff), and we're looking for student speakers and volunteers.
We are especially in need of student volunteers, who will sit with the girls during the conference to interact and answer questions from his/her table.

Here are the reasons why you would want to help out:
- inspiring/cutting-edge research talks, demos
- presentation by Google. Topic is not decided yet but last years was on how Google's technology helped people's lives in 2010 Haiti earthquake.
- free food (lunch!)
- No physical labor involved: you just have to sit in a designated table and interact with the girls, WHILE you yourself listen to these amazing talks
- exposure to your peers, researchers from Princeton and NYU, Deans, Professors, Googlers, find friends, talk to high school girls
- lots of fun!

The conference goes on from 8am to 4:30pm. Any time commitment (from an hr to an entire day) is appreciated!
This year's program hasn't been decided yet, but will be updated on this website http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/HS
If you have any questions please email us at wincgwise@cs.nyu.edu.

Hope to see you at the event!

Thanks,

Angjoo Kim
President of Women in Computing @ NYU

site visit to Yahoo! Research HQ in Times Square:
"Hi everyone,

Hope you had a great break! We are excited to announce that we are planning a site visit to Yahoo! Research HQ in Times Square again on Friday, February 11. In addition to the site tour, members of their team will be giving our group presentations on their research projects, and lunch will be provided. It should be a great opportunity to learn more about possible career opportunities after graduation (especially for Ph.D. students). If you are interested in attending, please respond to epk2104@columbia.edu by next Thursday, February 3.

And the keynote speakers are Tracy Camp, Barbara Liskov, and
Jeannette Wing.

This event exposes the undergraduates to a variety of hands-on,
including theory, research, which they concretely experience during
the workshop. The website has all the details, including pictures
from the past very successful OurCS.

It would be great if you pass this information to the women
undergraduate at your institutions, and encourage them to attend.
And please also pass this invitation to any other of your
colleagues.